US Patent Issued to STREEM on Aug. 12 for "3D model reconstruction and scale estimation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,431, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STREEM LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"3D model reconstruction and scale estimation" was invented by Sean M. Adkinson (North Plains, Ore.), Flora Ponjou Tasse (London), Pavan K. Kamaraju (London), Ghislain Fouodji Tasse (London) and Ryan R. Fink (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include systems and methods for creation of a 3D mesh from a video stream or a sequence of frames. A sparse point cloud is first created from the video stream, which is then densified per frame by comparison with spatially proximate frames. A 3D mesh is then created from the densified depth maps, and t...